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A Little Father's Day History
Father’s Day is celebrated on the third Sunday of June to honor dads, grandfathers, step-dads and all men who act as a father figure. Like most holidays that go way back, the origin is hard to trace but most people will agree that Sonora Dodd played a big part in starting the holiday.
Sonora Louise Smart Dodd first brought up the idea of a father's day in 1909. She wanted a special day to honor her father, William Smart. When Sonora's mother died in childbirth with her sixth child, William was left to raise the newborn and five other children by himself on a farm in Washington. As an adult, Sonora realized how strong and unselfish her dad had been raising his kids as a single parent.
In 1966, President Lyndon Johnson made the third Sunday of June Father's Day. It wasn't until 1972 that President Richard Nixon made Father's Day a national holiday - about 60 years after Mother's Day had been made a national holiday. Thank goodness, a day for fathers finally came around!
-By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.Charles Wadsworth
-My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.Abraham Lincoln
-Small boy's definition of Father's Day: It's just like Mother's Day only you don't spend so much.Unknown
-Any man can be a Father, but it takes someone special to be a dad.Anne Geddes
-A man's children and his garden both reflect the amount of weeding done during the growing season.Unknown
-He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.Clarence Budington Kelland
-I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week.Mario Cuomo
-Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.Ruth E. Renkel
-It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.Johann Schiller
-My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass." "We're not raising grass," Dad would reply. "We're raising boys.Harmon Killebrew
-Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.Elizabeth Stone
-Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers - and fathering is a very important stage in their development.David M. Gottesman
-A father carries pictures where his money used to be.Unknown
-Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name.William Wordsworth
-A wise son maketh a glad father.Proverbs 10:1
-The greatest gift I ever had came from God; I call him Dad!Unknown